38 Bahadurabad

Zusatztext A portrait of family life in Karachi! particularly the world of women!and the experiences of a young girl growing up there. It is a short! fragmentary!autobiographical novel! and its axis is the death of the author's father!which provides a catalyst for a series of memories about her young life. 38 Bahadurabad by Zeeba Sadiq combines a rich and evocative depiction of life in Karachi, Pakistan with an absorbing portrait of a remarkable household. Zusammenfassung A unique blend of autobiography and fiction, 38 Bahadurabad tells the story of a young girl growing up in Pakistan in the late 1960s, as the narrator recalls the motley group of eccentrics who fashioned her upbringing, and the father who, following his death in 1972, was apotheosised to near sainthood.

Product details

• Authors: Zeeba Sadiq, Sadiq Zeeba
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.2002
• EAN: 9780571216413
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21641-3
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 178 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Pakistan, Asian Interest; Childhood; Eccentrics; Secrets, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary